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Trenchless Equipment (TE) Pipe Bursting machines utilize “Compact” Swaged Wire Rope. This type of wire rope is often used in logging. Big Timber, a logging series on Netflix, demonstrates how these swaged wire ropes are used in logging. For pipe bursting use, the benefit of this rope is that it is flexible, has high tonnage…
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Pipe Bursting can be used to repair and replace commercial property owners’ cast iron drain lines. Convenience stores, fast food restaurants, sports arenas, and movie theaters often need to replace their drain lines. Soda pop corrodes the cast iron drains installed in these facilities. Polyethylene pipe enables pipe bursting machines to quickly and efficiently replace…
Read More Pipe Bursting machines may use 70 tons or more of pulling force to install a municipal sewer or water main. During a pipe replacement project, the polyethylene (HDPE) pipe may stretch. This stretching can be due to friction. Ground conditions may force the old pipe to put pressure onto the HDPE pipe. Friction may also…
Read More Trenchless Equipment’s Pipe Bursting machines utilize High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipe to replace or repair underground sewer and water pipelines. HDPE pipe is flexible and forgiving. HDPE can be flexed into nearly a 180 degree bend in order to be turned away from picture windows, enter basements and flex around walls and doorways. It still…
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Trenchless Equipment recently spoke to the City of Sunnyvale in California in order to assist a client who was replacing an Asbestos Concrete (AC) Pipe. The city said that if the client was to proceed by pipe bursting the line, then the city recommended using a snap cutter to remove the section of AC pipe…
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